Monthly Archives: December 2013

As we are at the halfway point, I took sometime off to enjoy the holidays. But with the Florida College Classic just days away, I’d thought I’d give my top five players, so far. 5. Mark Anthoine The senior assistant captain is having quite the season so far, 6 goals and 7 assists totaling 13 […]

Devin Shore headlined Maine’s offensive showcase against American International in a 7-1 5-1 sweep. Coming into Friday night Gendron made a change in the lineup, he sat out Jake Rutt after his costly penalty led to a tying goal on Sunday’s game. In his place was sophomore Kyle Williams, who only played one game previous […]

The Black Bears will welcome the American International Yellow Jackets of the Atlantic Hockey conference for a two-game series on Friday and Saturday. As I look at this matchup, I can just see Daffy Duck saying, “Boy, am I a Yellow Jacket!” that’s the feeling I’m getting coming into this matchup. The 3-10 Yellow Jackets […]

For my concluding part of this Reader’s Guide series, I decided to talk about something that has helped provide the energy for the great fans of Maine Hockey, the pep band. While I wasn’t able to find when the pep band first formed, they’ve been around for quite a long time. I was able to […]

The Black Bears racked up their 7th victory in a thriller that came down to the final few minutes against the #6/7 Lowell Riverhawks. The Black Bears got off to a hot start just five minutes in, while on the powerplay freshman Cam Brown fired a shot that went past Lowell goaltender Connor Hellebuyck to […]

For my first few posts I wrote an article, this time I thought I’d try something a little different. So I made a video for this post of the series, If you like or dislike the way I’m presenting this piece, leave a comment down below

Maine will return home to the Alfond as they host the UMass-Lowell Riverhawks on Sunday. The game was originally scheduled for Saturday night, but due to the playoff game for the Maine Black Bears football team that was scheduled for Saturday at 2 pm, Maine found it best to move it to another day. That […]

In my first two posts, I talked about the history of the fan base and attendance records. But for my third post in this series I thought I’d talk about the barn that brings all these great fans together, Alfond Arena. Alfond Arena was constructed in in the mid 70’s after Maine was able to […]

Maine hockey has been around for 36 years, and this was a program at times that saw early success, then some struggles for a half a decade, followed by its rise to prominence. The Maine Black Bears team formed a Division I team in 1977, to an Alfond Arena that held about 3,800 in capacity. […]

Alex Quirk

Alex covers UMaine Hockey for WMEB Sports, the sports department at WMEB 91.9 FM, as the sideline reporter/live-tweeter during the games. .